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Thanks for the reference!
February 05, 2019 at 10:55
Eh, if you have a theory of history, if you make it constraining you'll be accused of being reductionist and unrealistic, if you make it loose you'll ...
February 05, 2019 at 06:46
There's actually a lot of capital N Nature in Being and Time. It's a name for a 'totality of entities' in a specific 'domain' - which tells us nothing...
February 04, 2019 at 23:51
To my mind the question of whether normativity is part of the essential constitution of Dasein for Heidegger of B&T is distinct from whether it's part...
February 04, 2019 at 23:23
The thread's clearly supposed to be about Heidegger exegesis and criticism, specifically about the relationship of his account in Being and Time to na...
February 04, 2019 at 22:58
:clap:
February 04, 2019 at 21:38
Explicit analysis of social structure would be more similar to anthropology, which Heidegger takes care to distinguish the aims of his inquiry from. H...
February 04, 2019 at 21:03
"Ice cream is good" "That doctor is good" "That researcher is good" "That teacher is good" "That game is good" "Pleasure is good" "Knowledge is good" ...
February 04, 2019 at 20:52
A distinction I'd like to highlight is between experiential temporality and time. Heidegger's analysis in Being and Time links three fundamental aspec...
February 04, 2019 at 19:18
Sorry for not continuing with the exegesis, I've been busy IRL and sitting down to concentrate for the length of time required to understand what's go...
February 04, 2019 at 18:28
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It's pretty sad that we have more love for fishing territory than third generation (AKA natives with not-white grandparents) Pakistani immigrants.
February 04, 2019 at 17:52
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Tax Justice Network agrees.
February 04, 2019 at 14:55
You can't divide by zero. Dividing by zero is just shorthand for the limit of a/b where b tends to 0. Whether a/b tends to infinity when b tends to ze...
February 04, 2019 at 06:27
Your reasoning's good, but the maths isn't there. Think you'd be able to prove P2 (and thus P3, which is just a restatement of P2) given that the link...
February 03, 2019 at 11:08
Well I'm fucked.
February 03, 2019 at 05:47
Well, because there are sensible ways to think of subsets of sets as having 0 size, that does go against parts (subsets) of wholes (sets) necessarily ...
February 02, 2019 at 19:32
{1} has cardinality 1, but measure 0 in the real line. The size depends on the measure. See this vs this.
February 02, 2019 at 18:20
The empty set has size 0, but so does any finite or countable set as a member of the real line. Even the rationals.
February 02, 2019 at 17:35
Being unable to shave off parts of zero size is precisely the limitation I spoke about. You can shave off sets of zero size easy, say {x in except for...
February 02, 2019 at 16:10
The idea of chopping something into units requires a countable number of chops. You can half, quarter etc. The real line instead is an uncountable uni...
February 02, 2019 at 15:17
A part can have different sizes depending on its whole, assuming you allow this discussion to involve sets and elements of sets. EG, the number 1 has ...
February 02, 2019 at 14:15
First order logic is logic with quantification over variables. It's an expansion of propositional (or zeroth order) logic. It's been a while since I s...
February 02, 2019 at 08:28
They're the same thing, since propositional logic is complete and has the deduction theorem. You just have to be careful with what those iffs work lik...
February 02, 2019 at 08:03
Propositional and first order predicate logic both have the deduction metatheorem. They also have the property of completeness, so that semantic entai...
February 02, 2019 at 07:55
For 1 maybe something like: 1. ~(PvQ) 2. Assume P. 3. PvQ (2, disjunction introduction) 4. ~P (1,2,3, contradiction). Repeat for Q, though it might ju...
February 02, 2019 at 05:45
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*Puts 'Vietnamese Dong' into Google... thinks a second... *puts Vietnamese currency into Google*...huh, is that so.
January 30, 2019 at 22:19
A held opinion is a belief, X knows that P iff X has a justified true belief that P is a reasonable approximation to knowledge that. There are ambigui...
January 30, 2019 at 19:19
You might like doing a project on propositional and predicate logic then. Depending on the length. It's very mathsy.
January 30, 2019 at 14:56
The problem is we do see where you're coming from. You just don't see where we are coming from. Imagine yourself back in time before you attained your...
January 30, 2019 at 05:35
I read that as saying variable piece of a manifoldness might be a connected chunk of a manifoldness. But when we take 'a' variable piece of a manifold...
January 29, 2019 at 20:23
Survival without cooperation, ethics without normativity, morality without obligation, politics without groups, people without identities, freedom wit...
January 28, 2019 at 18:46
Have you read the thread so far? We've discussed things relevant to your questions.
January 28, 2019 at 09:08
Hey, you're right, that's why people take up progressive politics. I'm going to stop responding to you now. If you take that as a victory, hurrah for ...
January 28, 2019 at 05:54
So you agree that disabled people organising together to push the introduction of disabled access ramps is fine? And that it secures their individual ...
January 27, 2019 at 21:07
That works. Your statement of the logic is imprecise though: you need to change: To your implication was the wrong way round, but you used it correctl...
January 27, 2019 at 12:04
It isn't a privilege to be able to access the shop. This is because non-disabled people have access to the shop. It's a limitation to be unable to acc...
January 27, 2019 at 11:32
The dog being in the box would be that we're already in a state of unregulated capitalism. The dog should be in the box would be that we should be in ...
January 27, 2019 at 10:06
The two claims are inequivalent. "There are only individuals" vs "politics (in some vague sense) should concern only individuals.". This is the same d...
January 27, 2019 at 08:52
I take silly ideas seriously all the time. That's part of why I enjoy philosophy and learning more generally. I would not have attempted to rebut your...
January 27, 2019 at 07:05
This isn't from the paper, it uses mostly external ideas to what's been presented in the paper so far. If I can make an analogy, imagine yourself as a...
January 27, 2019 at 02:28
Have you watched Adam Curtis' mini documentary Nonlinear Warfare and longer one Hypernormalisation (second one has NSFW images)?
January 26, 2019 at 15:43
This might be surprising but I didn't actually have Trump in mind while writing the OP. The alt right views him as a useful idiot, but his rhetoric al...
January 26, 2019 at 07:27
They're more relaxing, yeah. Scientists hate him, see this one trick that makes reactionaries apologise!
January 26, 2019 at 01:05
Some of you probably thought I was paranoid writing this, but I found this which is a much better example of the things I was talking about, it's an e...
January 26, 2019 at 00:43
Well I'm glad you're not that deluded, and being determined to succeed is usually a good thing, so grats. This idea that there are only individuals is...
January 25, 2019 at 12:12
I'm looking forward to your reply, then. :grin:
January 24, 2019 at 22:25
Ayn Rand isn't particularly popular among the regular posters. It's very common that lots of people engage a Randian at once.
January 24, 2019 at 22:21
In other news, this.
January 24, 2019 at 22:08
That's fine. You can leave me in my ignorance, it won't hurt.
January 24, 2019 at 21:54